Size:
Less than one linear foot (about 400 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright:
The Truman Library received no donation of copyright from the donor of these papers.
Documents created by U.S. government employees in the course of their official duties are
also in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the
creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Kathryn Gridley (2005) as part of the Truman Library Internship
Program. Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

Russell P. Andrews was a Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President,
John Steelman, from 1950-1952. Prior to working for Steelman, Andrews
worked as a Legislative Assistant to Roger W. Jones, Deputy Director at
the Bureau of the Budget. After completing his work for Steelman in 1952,
Andrews returned to the Bureau of the Budget. Andrews died in approximately
1982.

The papers of Russell P. Andrews consist of papers and memorabilia pertaining to Mr. Andrews’s
tenure as White House staff member and as special assistant to John Steelman, the Assistant to
the President, from 1950-1952.

The collection consists of letters, memorandums, and memorabilia from Mr. Andrew’s work under Mr.
Steelman. Included are two reports by Mr. Andrews “Wilderness Sanctuary” and “The Re-Americanization
of Foreign Service Officers” written for the Inter-University Case Program. The accompanying folder
title list is in alphabetical order pertinent to the enclosed items.

The collection also includes a bound copy of a 1942 report by Andrews and Rowland Egger on government
reorganization in Bolivia, four letters from Harry S. Truman to Andrews, a 1950 memorandum from
Andrews to Truman proposing assignment of foreign service officers to duties in the United States,
photographs of Andrews and other members of the White House staff, and a cigarette lighter bearing
the image of President Truman.